Finnebrogue Artisan sets Guinness World record for vegan burger
Finnebrogue Artisan in Northern Ireland has set a new Guinness world record by creating the world’s biggest vegan burger which will benefit the local homeless.
Based in Downpatrick, county Down, the local food producer made a vegan burger weighing a whopping 162kg and measuring 1.2metres in diameter.
The record-breaking burger was made in its £30million facility at Downpatrick.
A total of 10 employees were involved in completing the burger, which required creating 1274 of their standard sized naked evolution burgers.
The vegan burger was made using the brand’s Naked Evolution Burger recipe, which involved around 10kg tomatoes, 4.5kg lettuce, 7kg cheese, 2kg tobacco onions, 5kg gherkins, 5kg Naked without the oink rashers and 5kg Naked Burger sauce.
The result was a staggering 162.5kg, almost 40 percent heavier than the target weight of 100kg.
Sean Kearney, Finnebrogue’s Innovation Process Manager, describing how they managed to make and cook such a huge patty, said: “We were set a target weight of 100kg, but we knew from the outset we wanted to exceed that. The team included representatives from NPD, marketing and engineering; and together we designed and built everything, including a swing to aid turning the patty during cooking.”
“That was perhaps the most challenging part of the record as we didn’t want to break the patty,” he added.
He continued: “The patty took almost nine hours to cook so the day was long. However, when we added all the condiments and the weight of the burger was revealed, we were elated!”
Once the record was verified by the Guinness team, the huge vegan patty was shared between staff members and distributed to a local homeless community.
